The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Carcinoid heart disease is a rare presentation of the carcinoid syndrome, which is caused by excessive tumoral hormone production and the abundant release of vasoactive substances with systemic expressions. A 62-year-old woman presented with flushing, diarrhea, weight loss, and right-sided heart fai...

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Autores principales: Șerban, Adela, Dădârlat-Pop, Alexandra, Tomoaia, Raluca, Hagiu, Claudia, Axente, Dan, Donca, Valer, Suceveanu, Mihai
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9776767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36552936
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12122929
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author Șerban, Adela
Dădârlat-Pop, Alexandra
Tomoaia, Raluca
Hagiu, Claudia
Axente, Dan
Donca, Valer
Suceveanu, Mihai
author_facet Șerban, Adela
Dădârlat-Pop, Alexandra
Tomoaia, Raluca
Hagiu, Claudia
Axente, Dan
Donca, Valer
Suceveanu, Mihai
author_sort Șerban, Adela
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description Carcinoid heart disease is a rare presentation of the carcinoid syndrome, which is caused by excessive tumoral hormone production and the abundant release of vasoactive substances with systemic expressions. A 62-year-old woman presented with flushing, diarrhea, weight loss, and right-sided heart failure symptoms. Specific carcinoid heart disease features were identified using transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography at the tricuspid and pulmonic valves. Biomarkers, 99mTc-Tektrotyd scintigraphy, SPECT-CT, and a biopsy later confirmed the diagnosis, and the patient began treatment for the underlying condition.
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spelling pubmed-97767672022-12-23 The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature Șerban, Adela Dădârlat-Pop, Alexandra Tomoaia, Raluca Hagiu, Claudia Axente, Dan Donca, Valer Suceveanu, Mihai Diagnostics (Basel) Case Report Carcinoid heart disease is a rare presentation of the carcinoid syndrome, which is caused by excessive tumoral hormone production and the abundant release of vasoactive substances with systemic expressions. A 62-year-old woman presented with flushing, diarrhea, weight loss, and right-sided heart failure symptoms. Specific carcinoid heart disease features were identified using transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography at the tricuspid and pulmonic valves. Biomarkers, 99mTc-Tektrotyd scintigraphy, SPECT-CT, and a biopsy later confirmed the diagnosis, and the patient began treatment for the underlying condition. MDPI 2022-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9776767/ /pubmed/36552936 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12122929 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Șerban, Adela
Dădârlat-Pop, Alexandra
Tomoaia, Raluca
Hagiu, Claudia
Axente, Dan
Donca, Valer
Suceveanu, Mihai
The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort role of echocardiography in the diagnosis of cardiac involvement in a rare systemic condition: the carcinoid heart disease: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9776767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36552936
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12122929
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